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Official letter from Menches to Ptolemaios : draft

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Accession: P.Tebt.0013
Find spot: Kerkeosiris, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 114 B.C.
Date: 114 B.C.
Date range: 114 BCE – 114 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 30.1 x 41 cm.']
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Description

Menches, village scribe of Kerkeosiris, informs Ptolemaios, probably the strategos, about damage done to a dike by certain persons who had carried off earth from it for their own use.

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 3649. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Letter of Menches to Ptolemaeus HGV-meta Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)-114

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Found at Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 3649 primary
APIS-Text berkeley.apis.18 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.tebt;1;13 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.tebt.1.13 tier-1
HGV-Text 3649 tier-1

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